Opinion pieces

Retail trading triggers questions around market values

When retail investors grouped on Reddit, a social media platform, to buy shares in a number of heavily shorted firms last month, commentators inferred...

Mitigating cloud concentration risk in the banking sector

In the financial services industry, concentration risk is a component of operation risk, which, along with market, credit, and liquidity risk, comprise financial regulators’...

Inspiring better banking for the post-pandemic world

The Covid 19 pandemic has made a profound impact on people and industry worldwide. In the case of banks, in addition to managing their...

Opportunity knocks…

While no one could have foreseen that the world will face an unprecedented pandemic in 2020 – one that nearly halted economies and industries...

Another all-time high for Bitcoin. How long will it last this time?

“Bitcoin reached a new all-time high last week”, we’ve been hearing this on an almost daily basis for a few weeks, as the cryptocurrency...

Data governance and data quality in big data context

The banking industry is a prime example of how data controls the world. The volume of data generated is enormous and continues to grow...

How can finance do its part to combat climate change

Climate change presents a societal and economic challenge that we have never seen before. As a global society we must learn to change ingrained...

Deleveraging data has costed Middle Eastern principal investors over USD 6 billion in potential returns on investment

Principal investors in the Middle East – comprising of the likes of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), family offices, private equity companies, and institutional investors...

Middle East banks still face a digital dilemma and it’s not the technology

Middle East retail banks are still facing a unique set of challenges as they navigate the digital transformation journey. From regulatory hurdles to tech...

Huawei Cloud paves way for global opportunities

Cloud computing is booming. The changes in the technology landscape have allowed it to flourish and become a key part of corporate IT strategy...

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